Attaching a unique identifier to laravel request

Question

Is there a package for laravel that ads a unique identifier to each request in order to use it also for logs?

For example: I would know that request-id as12121-1212s-121 had an error and I could look into logs for any errors.

That request-id would be seen in the UI and I could debug when getting a printscreen with the error from the client

Answer 1

If you need a unique id per request you can assign a uuid to the request via global middleware.

For example:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

class RequestUniqueId
{
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next)
    {
        $uuid = (string) Str::uuid();
        $request->headers->set('X-Request-ID', $uuid);

        return $next($request);
    }
}